Palehound will release the Kitchen 7" on February 25th via Exploding In Sound Records. Recorded by Julian Fader and Carlos Hernandez at Gravesend Recordings (at The Silent Barn).  Mastered by Josh Bonati. Artwork by Andrew Marathas.

Kitchen 7" marks the first recordings of Palehound as a full band...
Ellen Kempner (vox/guitar)
Ben Scherer (guitar)
Thom Lombardi (bass)
Max Kupperberg (drums)

Palehound are going on tour this Spring including a stop at SXSW. Get in touch with the band at ellen.kempner@gmail.com with any show requests.

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I Might Just Be

Contact is from The Blue Swell out May 6, 2016.

You're on some kind of specialty
You wanna use my energy
Halfway gone with the radio on
But you're all wrong and the plummet's long

Do you wanna know what's real to me?
You got a patent on frailty
Halfway blissed but you're gonna miss
How you're sickened, all your weekends
Ha Ha

We made contact
Tell me did you mean that
I need to understand
I need to understand
I need to understand

Yesterday I could barely stay
Awake at all am I slipping away
Breathing fumes I can hardly use
Did we ever? I remember
Ha Ha
Ha Ha

We made contact
Tell me did you mean that
I need to understand
I need to understand
I need to understand

We made contact
Tell me did you mean that
I need to understand
I need to understand
I need to understand
I need to understand
I need to understand


The Blue Swell

Beverly - Contact

We Used To Ride

Judy's Lament

Haze - St. John

Off of "Heaven on the Rocks", the first full-length LP from Ladada.
Pre-order the 12" here:
https://goldrobotrecords.bigcartel.com/product/ladada-heaven-on-the-rocks-12

Heaven On The Rocks

Float Away

Ladada - Float Away

From the forthcoming record 'Mirroring' out on Orchid Tapes and Fear or Missing Out Records June 7th.

Pre-order the 12" vinyl: shop.orchidtapes.com/product/yohuna-mirroring-12

Yohuna - Mirroring

For more info about the SLR30 Singles Series:
https://slumberlandrecords.com/slr30singles

Lake Ruth was formed in 2015 by multi-instrumentalist Hewson Chen of The New Lines, drummer Matt Schulz (Holy Fuck, Enon, SAVAK) and vocalist Allison Brice (The Eighteenth Day of May, The Silver Abduction). Their expanded live line-up includes René Dennis (The New Lines), James Canty (The Make-up, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists), and David Mason (Listening Center).
 
Inspired by 1960's sonic experimentation, baroque psychedelia, library obscurities, vintage pop noir, Giallo soundtracks, kraut and jazz, Lake Ruth creates intriguing and unique music rich with multilayered instrumentation, propulsive rhythms and atmospheric vocals.

Following up two excellent albums and several singles, "Extended Leave" is their latest music and perhaps the sharpest, most incisive example of their deep, thought-provoking pop yet. Mysterious and melodic, both sides of this double-A side single ably demonstrate why Lake Ruth are one of the most interesting bands out there today.

Extended Leave

Lake Ruth - Extended Leave

Talk Show - Stress

Peel Dream Magazine is the musical vehicle for NYC's Joe Stevens, who launched the band in 2018 with the critically acclaimed album "Modern Meta Physic." With it Stevens created a mysterious, liminal tribute to the hazy end of ‘90s dream-pop – a masterful mix of first-class songwriting precision and train-window sonic impressionism that duly found its place on numerous "Best of 2018" lists.

After 18 months of writing and live shows with a shifting cast of band members, Peel Dream are back with "Agitprop Alterna," an album that pushes the group's dreamy, motorik-heavy sound to a deeply melodic and beautifully discordant place. The album pays homage to a strain of mod-ish U.K. pop that spans early My Bloody Valentine and Talulah Gosh, up through early Stereolab, Belle & Sebastian, and even Broadcast. It's also indebted to stateside pop bands that were cut from a similar cloth -- Rocketship, Lilys, Yo La Tengo, and even "Nevermind"-era Nirvana.

Where the creation of "Modern Meta Physic" was a solitary pursuit, "Agitprop Alterna" found Stevens channeling the collaborative spirit of the band's ever-rotating live incarnation in the studio. The album is ultimately defined by the tension of difference: between itself and its predecessor; intertwined male-female vocals; the music's languid dreaminess and concrete sonic immediacy.

Deeply rooted in the Brechtian ideas of art as a tool to spur action, "Agitprop Alterna" deepens the connection between the existential and the interpretive first explored on "Modern Meta Physic," giving the listener space to find their own meaning in shimmering guitars, fuzzed-out synths, and buzzing organ drones. It is a rejection of manipulation in all its forms and a buzzsaw against complacency – soft-focus pop whose clear-cut message is that you get to decide the message. It's a rare trick to agitate without being obvious: perhaps that makes "Agitprop Alterna" the most Peel Dream Magazine-like statement yet.

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